Getting more flavor and less bitterness

[lolcats]

Hey friends,

I've done a few batches now and the IPAs taste good. But I'd like to improve and make them perfect so I need your advice.

I seem to be having 2 problems.

1/ I manage to get a lot of aroma. Usually I hop stand for 45 minutes at 170F and dry hop for 5 to 7 days and smells really awesome. But yesterday i was drinking a Stone IPA after drinking one of my chinook/amarillo/citra IPAs and definitely need more flavor. I wish it tasted more like how it smells. Late hop additions, hop stand, dry hopping... What's the problem? Maybe the water. I use Manhattan filtered water.

2/ I keep noticing that when drinking one of my beers out of the bottle, the beer tends to get more and more bitter as it goes down, to the point where it's really bitter. I'm sure this is from the dry hops. I cold crash for 24 or 48 hours and the beer is clear. But I'm sure microscopic hop residue still tends to stay in the liquid. So how do I resolve this to get a more homogeneous beer besides pooring it entirely into a glass?


Below is the recipe for my 1 gallon chinook/amarillo/citra IPA.

 

[dsaavedra]

If you're drinking it from the bottle and it gets more bitter the more you drink, you might be drinking more and more yeast the closer you get to the bottom of the bottle. Sometimes yeast can taste a little bitter, not like hop bitterness but just a little weird.

 

[m00ps]

I do my IPAs with a major emphasis on flameout and hopstand additions. I add a large amount at flameout and another amount at ~30min/180F and then 2 more dry hop additions. I only do a few oz during the boil for bitterness and a bit of flavor. I know I get most of my hop character from the post boil additions. Ive had many of stones offerings. I like them, but I can tell they definitely do more boil additions than I would like.

For reference, for a 5gal batch I usually do 1oz at 60min for bittering, 2 oz at 10min, and over a pound for the hopstand and dry hop. I would move your 5 and 2 min additions to flameout and elave them in for the hopstand